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Gwanggyo Power Center

By BETSY KROLL Friday, Apr. 24, 2009

MVRDV, Rotterdam
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Unlike in South Korea's typical valley-based towns, where reduced ventilation creates smog, the concept here is to build green space upward, imitating patterns of hills and valleys. Each tower would drip with lushly planted terraces.
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